By William Bernard
Adventure World is Zynga’s latest game offering on Facebook, and is also their most different game to date from their previous offerings. Unlike their previous titles, Adventure World does not place the player in a position of god-hood, that is to say you aren’t managing and controlling a farm, city, or empire. Rather, player’s take the role of a budding explorer rising up in the ranks of an organization known as the Adventurer’s Society. The game takes many queues from pulp fiction, where you control an Indiana Jones style character and go on many adventurers, uncovering the secrets of the past with nothing more than your trusty machete, whip, and pickaxe to do so (having a few friends tag along helps too)
The gameplay will feel familiar and yet different to most, even veterans. While a lot of familiar social gameplay elements have been integrated, they also introduce several new ones as well as combine them together to form a truly unique experience online. After selecting a gender for your character, you are placed on an isometric map with several interact able objects. As with many games of this type, interacting with each object takes up energy, but by doing so will award you with xp, money, and occasionally items or more energy. There’s plenty to do, including disarming traps, discovering secret caches of treasure, or simply clearing away dense underbrush. The game really makes you feel like you are in an Indiana Jones film, and does so beautifully. The animation and graphics are gorgeous, and there is a strong amount of detail worked into everything. And since the game takes place across several different environments, there is always something new to see and explore.
There is also a story to the game, which is something of a surprise considering most Zynga titles only have the barest of stories to hold them together. Suffice it to say, the storyline in Adventure World takes you from the jungles of El Dorado to Tibet and beyond, and makes for an interesting and 
engaging jaunt through several exotic locations. There are a multitude of quests to take on, so there’s never a lack of anything to do in the game, but the game has some pretty severe energy restrictions that can grind your progress to a halt. You can invite friends to join, thus making them perform actions and saving you energy, but this is not always feasible for some players. Energy refreshes at a terribly slow rate, so it’s important to plan out ahead what you want to do. Furthermore, energy doubles as your health when you are tackling traps and enemies on the screen. It pays to be careful in this game!
Much like many other social games, Adventure World also allows players to customize a home base, which you can decorate to your whims as well as helps to generate resources used for exploring. Much like Zynga’s Empires & Allies, players can only generate one kind of resource, so you will need to harvest from your friends. Luckily there aren’t too many resources in the game to manage, so this isn’t as frustrating as it sounds.
Overall, Adventure World is a fine offering from Zynga, and was it not for its rather tough energy management, might even be Zynga’s best offering yet. The game genuinely captures the spirit of exploration it so hard tries to achieve, and while it isn’t perfect, it certainly makes exploring on your desktop a fun trip.
Click here to play Adventure World.
[Download the file here Tukko Rating | Adventure World]
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Tukko Rating | Adventure World
By William Bernard
Adventure World is Zynga’s latest game offering on Facebook, and is also their most different game to date from their previous offerings. Unlike their previous titles, Adventure World does not place the player in a position of god-hood, that is to say you aren’t managing and controlling a farm, city, or empire. Rather, player’s take the role of a budding explorer rising up in the ranks of an organization known as the Adventurer’s Society. The game takes many queues from pulp fiction, where you control an Indiana Jones style character and go on many adventurers, uncovering the secrets of the past with nothing more than your trusty machete, whip, and pickaxe to do so (having a few friends tag along helps too)
There is also a story to the game, which is something of a surprise considering most Zynga titles only have the barest of stories to hold them together. Suffice it to say, the storyline in Adventure World takes you from the jungles of El Dorado to Tibet and beyond, and makes for an interesting and
engaging jaunt through several exotic locations. There are a multitude of quests to take on, so there’s never a lack of anything to do in the game, but the game has some pretty severe energy restrictions that can grind your progress to a halt. You can invite friends to join, thus making them perform actions and saving you energy, but this is not always feasible for some players. Energy refreshes at a terribly slow rate, so it’s important to plan out ahead what you want to do. Furthermore, energy doubles as your health when you are tackling traps and enemies on the screen. It pays to be careful in this game!
Much like many other social games, Adventure World also allows players to customize a home base, which you can decorate to your whims as well as helps to generate resources used for exploring. Much like Zynga’s Empires & Allies, players can only generate one kind of resource, so you will need to harvest from your friends. Luckily there aren’t too many resources in the game to manage, so this isn’t as frustrating as it sounds.
Overall, Adventure World is a fine offering from Zynga, and was it not for its rather tough energy management, might even be Zynga’s best offering yet. The game genuinely captures the spirit of exploration it so hard tries to achieve, and while it isn’t perfect, it certainly makes exploring on your desktop a fun trip.
Click here to play Adventure World.
[Download the file here Tukko Rating | Adventure World]
[Tukkolabs]